The Government has agreed to give tax rebate of 25 per cent to property owners if their tax evaluation this year was Rs. 500 more than last’s year’s levy. And in case the tax evaluation this year is five times higher compared to last year, then the rebate of the property tax for the residents is around 55 % for the residents.
I know about the property tax bieng more in the residents in the Secunderabad cantonment, but I have heard that recently the Government has agreed to reconsider the property tax on the residents in here.
Yeah, many of the residents have got as much as 4 times the property tax that they had paid in the last year that they had , and this had actually led to a lot of arguments and protests from the residents.
There were some issues recently regarding the property tax of the residents in the Secunderabad Cantonment, werent there I heard that most of the residents were being billed more by the government
The GHMC has put a a target of Rs 25 crore for this financial year. As Rs 22 crore has been already collected, and the officials are doing whatever they can to collect taxes till the 31st of march.
changes in property tax rules have also contributed to the rise in collections this year. While property tax was calculated by evaluating the area of ground floor of a property earlier, this year tax was collected for first and second floors also
Besides creating widespread awareness on payment of property tax, defaulters of property tax were dealt with strictly. They have also taken up special drives and cracked down on defaulters. As a result many property owners have voluntarily come forward to pay property tax this year, resulting in huge rise in the collections
The corporation has been really strict when it came to the collection of taxes from the residnets in the city in this financial year. They have taken some strict measures about the residents and the payment of taxes.
Hello you/ Yeah this year the tax collected by the GHMC is pretty high. Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) is poised to create a record in property tax collection this year as it has already collected Rs 22 crore as property tax till date.